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Roger Casement Memorial

Roger Casement Memorial

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Roger Casement Memorial

Name: Roger Casement Memorial
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Location: Kerry, Munster, Ireland

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Best Road Cycling Rides to Roger Casement Memorial

1. Kerry Head loop from Ballyheigue

41.8km

01:55

300m

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Banna Beach – Ardfert Cathedral loop from Tralee Casement

60.7km

02:44

360m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Ardfert Cathedral – Roger Casement Memorial loop from Ardfert

69.2km

03:05

490m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Micheal

June 29, 2021

Sir Roger Casement, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader.Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.

During World War I, he made efforts to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. Sick with malaria, he came ashore in Banna Strand from a German Submarine, as part of an attempt to land German arms to assist with the but was captured in a nearby fort.
He wasconvicted and executed for high treason. He was stripped of his knighthood and other honours. Before the trial, the British government circulated excerpts said to be from his private journals, known as the Black Diaries, which detailed homosexual activities.

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Location: Kerry, Munster, Ireland

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Roger Casement Memorial

1. Kerry Head loop from Ballyheigue

2. Banna Beach – Ardfert Cathedral loop from Tralee Casement

3. Ardfert Cathedral – Roger Casement Memorial loop from Ardfert

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